I have finished all of my major course work except my thesis which will be done by May. I picked up a business minor just for the hell of it last semester. Since then I have gotten into a number of law schools and stopped giving a shit about my school work. Well, it recently bit me in the ass, and I may have messed up pretty badly on an accounting exam worth 25 percent of my grade.

I have a scholarship to a T14 school and can't let my gpa fall more than .13 in order to keep it. I doubt that it will fall that much, but is it even worth it to risk it? I have until the end of tomorrow to drop the course without having a big "W" on my transcript. Should I drop the course and consequently drop the minor? I personally feel like an underacheiver with just one major and no minors to speak of. If I wait until I get my grade, I can decide then but I also run the risk of having to selective withdraw. The W is non-punitive, but it still looks kind of bad. I have enough credits to still graduate without the class otherwise.

Drop that shit. Yes you won't have a minor, but you're going to law school... Your JD and LS grades are what will be propelling your career now. I wouldn't hold onto a minor at the expense of thousands of dollars in loans that will exponentially increase the longer it takes to pay them off. Who cares about a W if you still have a scholarship to a great school.

Use the extra time from not stressing out about accounting to focus on your other classes, so you don't run into another GPA problem in the future.

Knock wrote:I'd just take the W. Better to play it safe with the scholarship. Plus then you would be able to relax a lot more.

Judging from the responses, I may have not been clear. I can either....

A. drop it now and get no major

b. wait for my grade and possibly still complete the class, and get the major OR withdraw, take the W, and get no major

I have been stressing about this alot and therefore I don't even know If I am making sense anymore. lol. senioritis is a bitch.

I guess the general consensus is drop the shit because

a.no one will care about the major (exept maybe me)/ has no bearing on my future success as a lawyer.b. it will help me not worry about maintaing my scholarship.

Do you mean, drop it now and get no minor and no W? if so, that's definitely what i'd do. A minor won't matter at all, and without even having to get a W i think this is a pretty easy decision.

Yeah that's what I meant. I have thought this in my head but it feels much more reassuring coming from other people. Come to think of it, I don't even think law schools knew I was pursuing a business minor when they accepted me. I hadn't started to take classes yet and it wasn't on my resume...

Knock wrote:I'd just take the W. Better to play it safe with the scholarship. Plus then you would be able to relax a lot more.

Judging from the responses, I may have not been clear. I can either....

A. drop it now and get no major

b. wait for my grade and possibly still complete the class, and get the major OR withdraw, take the W, and get no major

I have been stressing about this alot and therefore I don't even know If I am making sense anymore. lol. senioritis is a bitch.

I guess the general consensus is drop the shit because

a.no one will care about the major (exept maybe me)/ has no bearing on my future success as a lawyer.b. it will help me not worry about maintaing my scholarship.

Do you mean, drop it now and get no minor and no W? if so, that's definitely what i'd do. A minor won't matter at all, and without even having to get a W i think this is a pretty easy decision.

Yeah that's what I meant. I have thought this in my head but it feels much more reassuring coming from other people. Come to think of it, I don't even think law schools knew I was pursuing a business minor when they accepted me. I hadn't started to take classes yet and it wasn't on my resume...

Yeah man, don't even worry. Congrats on the scholarship, and enjoy the rest of your year .